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Trauma Assessment

Resources for clinicians, including test materials, treatment manuals and other assessment resources, focused on PTSD assessment and treatment.

Childhood Attachment and Relational Trauma Screen (CARTS)

CARTS is a computerized survey of individuals’ recollections of the quality of their relationships with their family members during childhood, and of relational traumatic experiences occurring during childhood. Completing the measure usually takes 10-15 minutes and is available in several different languages.

UCLA Brief COVID-19 Screen for Child/Adolescent PTSD

This free tool was designed for use by professionals across a range of child-serving systems to facilitate PTSD risk screening and triage addressing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on children, adolescents and their families.

Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS)

The CAPS is widely considered to be the "gold standard" in PTSD assessment. It is a structured interview providing a categorical diagnosis, as well as a measure of the severity of PTSD symptoms as defined by DSM-IV. It can be administered by any trained person and takes 30-60 minutes.